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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ASHEY, an extensive ancient manor in the Isle of Wight; extending from the coast around Ryde southward to the hills which overhang the Main river. It belonged to the abbess of Wherwell, near Andover; was demised, in 1538, to Giles Worsley; and the northern part of it, on which Ryde stands, was sold to Anthony Dillington, and passed afterwards to the family of Player. Ashey Common, 2 miles S of Ryde, is now enclosed. Ashey Farm, a little further S, was the site of a cell of the nunnery of Wherwell. Ashey Down, still further S, rises 424 feet above the level of the sea, and commands a splendid view from Southampton to Chichester. Ashey Sea-mark, on the summit of the down, is a triangular pyramid, erected in 1735 by the Trinity Board; and guides the navigation into St. Helen's Road at Spithead. The Ryde waterworks, constructed in 1855, are at the foot of the down.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an extensive ancient manor" (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels") |
| Administrative units: | Hampshire AncC |
| Place: | Ashey |
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